Explosive and process of making same



Patented Sept. 1., 1925.

' Be it lmown that I, GUs'rAv UNITED ."STATCIES PATENT OFFICE.

COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION 01 SOU'.I.E DAKOTA.

nxrnosrvn AND rnoonss or minus SAME.

To all whom it may concern:

EGL'OFF, a

citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago,i county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Explosives and Processesof Making Same, of which the following is. a specification.

This invention relates to explosives and process'of making same and more particularl to explosives made by a combination of ydrocarbon gases with certain oxidizing agents or any combination with explosive material. a

Among the salient objects of the invention are to provide explosive substances I -which consists in combining hydrocarbon gases either in a gaseous or liquid form under .afhi pressure with oxidizing agents and confining them while under high pressure in a shell container equipped with an electrical igniter, fuse or detonator.

v of natura The tremendous explosive power of'hydrocarbon ases and liquids is well recognized and its .efl'ectiveness as an explosive has been shown by numerous accidental explosions and many experimental tests when I used in bombs or in cartridges em loyed' in blasting mines or wells. The basic idea in the herein-described invention is the use liquefied methane, ethane, propane,

. as, casinghead gas, normally, still and crac ed gases produced from the pressand-distillation of hydrocarbon oils, ethylene, pro ylene, coal gas or other gaseous hydrocar ns.- These gases while, in the liquefied form under hi h pressure are put into heavy pressure tig t. containers similar" to an explosive shell and the shell equipped with an i 'ter in the form of a fuse ordetonator .o fulminate of mercury. In the use" of these hydrocarbon gases, they maybe combinedwith an oxidizing agent such as air, oxygen, ozone or solid ts as sodium nitrate, ammonium nitrate, TNT, nitroglycerin, amatol, gun cotton, picric acid or the like. The amatol being a mixture of TNT.and ammonium nitrate. In combining these reagents, the hydrocarbons may be in. the form of gas or liquid ,and'oombined with a gaseous "oxi-' dizing agent asdescribed. The hydrocar-' bons with the oxidizing agents mixed therewith are char ed to the shell containers and the shells equipped with a fuse or detmendous burstin onator as required. In using explosives GUSTAV EGIIOFF, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB TO PRODUCTQ of this charactelyit is often necessary to have an absorbent such as charcoal, lamp black or a cellular material such as cotton present, to take up the explosive and oxidizin agents and with certain of the combinatlons the use of absorbent is somewhat more eflz'ective. The character or form of the container and the particular type of detonator device origniter or fuse is of no particular importance to the invention other than the explosive substance in the shell must be e uipped with an efl'ective device for ex 10 mg the substance contained in the she I. p

. Such shells or containers would be useful not only for purposes of war but in blasting mines or in shooting wells for oil or for other usful purposes to which explosive. materials may be used. An explosive made 1n the manner explained would have trepower and the cost of production of suc explosive material would e an important factor as explosive shells of this t e could be much more economical, coul e produced from gaseous or hydrocarbon liquids which are nowcommon byroducts from stills and processes in 2. An explosive mixture consisting of hydrocarbons and a gaseous oxidizing agent maintained under pressure.

3. An explosive consisting of a mixture of normally gaseous hydrocarbons maintained under pressure in a liquid state with an oxidizing agent.

4. An explosive consisting in a mixture of normally gaseous hydrocarbons maintained in a liquid state under pressure in combination with anoxidizing agent.

5. A process of making an explosive con sistingl in charging a leak proof container with 'quid by agent.

ocarbons and anoxidizing 6. A process of' making explosives con- I sisting in charging a leak proof container with normally gaseous hydrocarbons maintained at'suflicient pressure to keep them in liquid form, mixed with an oxidizing agent.

GUSTAV 'EGLOFF. 

